Why is it that so many shonen protagonists were raised without a father?

And just as Iruka is Naruto's "true" father, so is Saucegay Boruto's, and Naruto Sarada's. Daddy issues all around.

Punpun came really close. but the pacing was just so different.

Because it tells you exactly why a father figure is needed and what happens when a household doesn't have both pillars of a family and it does so in introducing the replacement after several years of single parent faggotry: The trainer, captain etc. - he turns the brat into a decent human bean.

Because they're literally me

It's just to make MCs more special and unique or to use the parent as future plot device/villain, see Darth Vader and shit.

I just really want to make a racist joke here

Nice try US Navy.

There's two reasons imo
>It's an easy way to get the reader to feel sympathy for the mc
>It leaves the door open for having another character become a father figure to the mc, which is a way to endear another character to the readers and also leaves the door open for him to get killed for some drama

In Bleach Mommy is missing. What is with all the dead/missing parents in fiction? Why are the grandparents usually present?

They're the most common types to be introduced as the father's replacement though. It's not my fault.
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>when you are designed to be hated or maybe even envied because you have parents who are both alive but absent from the plot

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See , and >even more so when make fun of an orphan for being a orphan in front of another orphan, and when you wished you didn't have parents, also in front of an orphan
Christ, how did Sakura get ANY fans?

She is hot. Her adult version that is.

I always thought that parents were shown as dead in many movies/shows because the writers were too lazy to include
a character that would only slow the mc down from going on adventures etc. It also gives mc's some call to action like
in hxh's case.

It's so they have more free time, retard. An orphaned hero setting out to defeat bad guys looks cooler than some cuck who has to come home to his parents.

>Fullmetal Alchemist
Hoeniem wanted to became a normal human in order to not seeing his wife and kids dying of old age while he would stay young and immortal. In fact he started he journey in order to return human and, after that, return to his family. He just couldn't expect for his wife to die for illness and his 2 sons making basically the equivalent of "a deal with the devil" of their world (also because he thought them nothing about alchemy. They started training in it after their mother died and they met Izumi)

did star wars basically invent this trope?

Because Buddha was a deadbeat dad

americans are so fucking weird

Her fandom are fantastic.

>MHA
He was raised with his father. Hes just away on business during the series.

No, but it popularised it.

Moral orel was more of a comedy though while Punpun is more about just life being shitty, but yeah I guess they still have a similar tone to them.